The stage was set. Ben Platt was sitting at a piano, playing his heart out to a moody bar. Bette Midler sat mere feet away …
The stage was set. Ben Platt was sitting at a piano, playing his heart out to a moody bar. Bette Midler sat mere feet away from him, wistfully listening. Two musical legends — one on the rise, one already beloved — in the same room, a room perfectly designed for a duet. And somehow, The Politician dropped the ball. How could these two masterful performers spend an entire season of television without singing together, even once?
If this were any other show watching two rivals drop everything to share a song would be beyond absurd. By the time the piano reunion happens in “Election Day” Ben Platt’s Payton Hobart and Bette Midler’s Hadassah Gold are at the peak of their rivalry.
